Knowledge management in human resource management: Evidence from a logistic sector

Knowledge Management is a systematic process that refines and manages data from direct in business or derived from source outside, for organizational purposes. In information society, increment of the usage of knowledge let knowledge as an efficient input of the production. As a result, knowledge management not only a global business, is important for all business. Knowledge Management is a kind of organizational activity that is done with almost participant employees in the business and organizational culture is needed to support this process. In this sense, there?s a link between knowledge management and human resource management, which supports people to carry out functions through the organization objectives in accordance with the organizational culture.The aim of this study is to provide empirical explanation on usage of effectiveness in implicit or explicit knowledge in recruitment process in human resource policy. In this study, human resource management and its policies are explained in line with help of concept of knowledge management and its models. The result of the empirical study done in a company from a logistic sector, used knowledge management in human resource management in selection and placement process shows that implicit knowledge is more effective than the explicit knowledge.Keywords:1)Knowledge Management,2)Knowledge Management in Human Resource Management, 3)The Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy,